Primary Sources - Basic Resources

What is a Primary Source? (wikipedia)
Primary vs Secondary - Princeton
Primary and Secondary - Ithaca College Library
ALA Primary Sources on the Web
Why Use Primary Sources?.pdf
Reading a Primary Source
How to Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources.
Primary Sources - What Are They?

Fact of Congress - Primary Documents (youtube encouraging use of primary source documents to learn about Congress)

National Archives Videoconference Request

Activities:

LOC Professional Development (select Introduction, Chapter Two)

Each day we create our own Primary Sources. Use this document as a way to demonstrate this to students.
MindWalkActivity.pdf

Are these Primary or Secondary Sources?

1. We cannot tell a lie
2. One hundred years towards suffrage
3. Hepburn discusses birth control bill
4. NAWSF
5. Election Day
6. Satisfied with life
7. Margaret Sanger
8. Program
9. 2 AM in the Subway
10. Calm about it….
11. The Speaker of the House
12. Kagan for Supreme Court
13. Liberty
14. Toward Equal Rights
15. Restaurant
16. Anti Suffrage